Ottawa to launch "pilot" to track expired student visas
Months after expressing the need to track whether international students with expired visas were still in Canada, the immigration department announced plans to launch a pilot program.
Months after saying it needed to begin tracking whether international students with expired visas were still in Canada, the immigration department announced plans to launch a pilot program to contact permit holders and gather information on migrants’ entries and exits.
In February, Immigration Minister Lena Diab said she wanted Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada to begin tracking such data on temporary residents.
